Trekkers - A TMNT Fanfic

Chapter 2 - My Past

"Yo, Genesis!!" the voice of Miggy called out again. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME!!

I sharply turned my head towards him and glared. He points to the entrance. I looked at it and saw my BEST FRENEMY. Jonas.

He looked around, then sighed. Maybe he's thinking that I'm not here. Of course, he didn't saw me 'cause I'm like behind Paul...okay, I gonna get used to saying that name without my throat getting tight.

"Jonas!" Miggy calls out. "Sit in front of the turtle freak with the pizza!"

Did he just-?! I am so gonna kill him for calling Mikey a turtle freak.

"Why?" Jonas asked.

"Just sit there!"

He shrugged and walked towards the seat. When he saw me, he immediately hesitated. He glared at Miggy, who was snickering. I just rolled my eyes and said "It's okay, Jonas. I won't hurt you."

He looked back at me and sighed before taking the seat in front of Mikey. He's still in his faded green hoodie, just like last year. But he also got thinner....and taller. Ashelei (pronounced at Ashley) is right, he went on a diet. I think I got fatter...but my friend from my old school, Faith, said I got thinner. I don't know, I don't care anymore.

I don't care if I'm fat. I'm just a vehicle made of flesh and my brain needs a luxurious ride.

"Oh...I forgot my welcome-back-hug...I'll give it to you later when no one but Ashelei can see us." I told Jonas, who was checking his stuff if he forgot something at home. 

He looked at me, I can see he's slightly blushing. I raised an eyebrow. He looked back at his bag and said "Y-yeah. Sure...only Ashelei, right?"

"Yep." I said, popping the 'p'.

Soon, the classroom in filled. Most of them are my former classmates, some are from other classrooms, two are transferees.

A few minutes later, the teacher arrived. Everyone took their seats immediately. She's the replacement for Ms Christine. She's 5'5", with heels, her hair is tied into a messy bun, and I can see she's wearing eyeliner...and she looks like an Asian version of Cleopatra. Seriously, that eyeliner is too thick I can't believe the school staff didn't noticed that. I thought too much make-up isn't allowed in this school! Heck, all that is allowed is lip gloss and powder! And I rarely use those two!!

She looked like a woman who acts all sweet, and kind, but when she gets pissed off, she's hand you two buckets of water and made you stand in the corridors. That is EPIC!

"Hello, class, I'm Michelle Tancoto, I'll be your English teacher for this year." she introduced herself, placing her stuff on the teacher's desk.

"Shall we start checking your materials, and we'll see if you're ready for this year." she said, managing a smile. She took out a list from her bag and read it out loud. "Okay. 7 notebooks?"

We took out our 7 notebooks from our bags. "1 Mathematics notebook?" We took out what she said. "1 thin notebook?" We took it out.

Let's just skip to the part when we finished checking our list.

We placed our stuff back in our bags. She smiled then said "How about a friendly activity? Take out your sketchpads and draw something that matters to you the most."

I smiled, I immediately knew what was I gonna draw. I took out my sketchpad and started sketching my heroes. If you're wondering, the turtles.

Paul looked at my drawing and asked "Why are you drawing them?"

"Because without them, I have nothing to live for." I replied, sketching Leo's face. I always make them look so adorable even if I try not to.

"What?"

"You'll know." I smiled at my drawing, Even you reader, you'll also know later.

After a few minutes, all of us finished. Ms Micheled called us randomly, and she called me last. She said that look intresting so she saved the best for the last. Most students drew their family, or friends. I drew my heroes.

I walked in front of the classroom and opened my sketchpad, looking at it before facing it to them. I looked at their faces, they looked confused, some of them are snickering, some are whispering to each other.

"Oh, Genesis. Why would you draw those hideous, mutant monsters?" Ms Michelle asked, making my blood boil. I growled, making her take a step back.

I contained my anger and sighed "I drew the turtles because they saved my life-"

"What? They came to life and saved you from a truck?" Miggy mocked, making the whole classroom snicker.

"They saved me from killing myself."

The room immediately turned quiet. "Before I transferred here, I thought I don't have a reason to live in this world anymore. My best friend's uncle hates me, he made her stay away from me. My other best friend's parents also hates me, they also made them stay away from me. All of them thinks I'm a bad influence because I say bad words."

"Than why do you say bad words?" Ms Michelle asked.

"Because that's the only way for me to defend myself from bullies. My parents doesn't care about me, they only went to my graduation because they needed to. They only made me go to school because they knew I can help with their business. That's what they only thought of me, a person who can help them earn money and raise their children." I fake-smiled. "But that's the thing, they don't think of me as their child. My younger siblings are their children, not me. Not long, I realised I'm adopted. They only adopted me so they can use me to earn money."

"But why would they-?"

"Would you please stop interrupting?" I cut her off, making her close her mouth. "Sorry." I said.

"No, it's okay." she smiled.

"I always hear them talk about me and me being useless because I don't always listen to them. Like this time when they told me not to go to the library near our house, I never listened and keep going there. They even locked me in my room, but I always find a way to escape. During that time, I really thought my life was useless, I almost killed myself. But I discovered Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles. Now it's the reason I'm still alive, it made me wait for the new episodes. If it wasn't for them, I'll be DEAD by now.

Mikey inspired me to be friendly, that's how I gained my new best friends. Raph told me the language of sarcasm, the only way to defend myself from stupid and bullies. Leo told me that you should do anything for the ones who are very dear to you. Well, Donnie? He told me not to give up. He has a crush on April, he knows April's human and he's mutant, that there's very little chance that April would like him back, but he never gives up winning April's heart. Spilnter teached me a lot of things, I can't say all of them to you, there's so many!" I smiled. "Heck, even Shredder teached me something! If you love someone, leave them where they're happy, not force them to stay with you. Puh, immature love sucks."

I looked at our teacher and nodded. As I walked to my seat, I looked at Miggy, who - for once in my whole life - looked sorry for me. I hid my smirk and sat down.